Is my opt im page really that bad

Right away the headline didn't pull me in.

Instead of: ARE YOU READY TO GET INTO THE MINDSET FOR SURVIVAL?

Go more for something like this:

You're About To Discover The Best Kept Secrets About [XYZ] That The [XYZ People] Don't Want You To Know

Proven headline that has worked for so many others.

Hope that helps!

I personally don't take a business seriously if they are using Free Websites. When you say you have only made 300 in the last few months, do you mean money or optins?

From what I've experienced pages like that rarely convert well. The page looks too busy for me to focus on Optin in and you need to remember that the majority of visitors attention span is rather low.

You'll have to test this but I'd personally remove everything on that page other than an eye catching title, tell them why optin in will give them what they're looking for and provide the optin form.

I don'y really know your niche so well, but try and find people in that niche and take a look at their squeeze/optin pages. You'll need to test it.

You have "share" buttons, and "like us on facebook" links right under your optin box? Why!

Your goal is to get that optin, not for them to leave your page and go to facebook.
People have short attention spans, and will click on your facebook page, and once on facebook,
they realize that one of their friends just posted something interesting, and before you know it, bye bye optin... never to return to you ever again!

You also have links to other pages on the top, which lead to some very "busy" and cluttered looking text.

Conclusion: The more stuff you have on your page that pulls someone away from your optin box, the less optins you are going to get.

I've certainly seen plenty that are worse, Chris. But it's not great.

It certainly sounds like it, from what you say.

Are you getting targeted traffic to that home-page? (How well targeted? How much? Is it coming only/mostly from search engines? Do you know what search terms are bringing the search engine traffic?).

Suggestions:

(i) As observed above, the headline is weak, and could be improved;

(ii) The layout of the sub-heading (in red) should be altered. If it's going to be over two lines, make them of roughly equal length. I don't know whether that's to do with screen-width, but on my monitor there's one word on its own, centered, in the middle of a second line: that doesn't look right at all;

(iii) The "create a free website with Weebly" at the bottom of the page loses a lot of credibility: it isn't expensive to upgrade to Weebly Pro and remove that;

(iv) This "Don't forget to like us on Facebook" thing, and the social media buttons, aren't helping, either: that all comes across to visitors as something designed for your benefit rather than for theirs (this does put some people off, and distracts/detracts from the opt-in box, too - as I think Arnold was rightly saying above).

(v) The other page at which I looked quickly was the blog, which seems to be almost concealed under the heading "electromagnetic pulse" (what's that all about?). The first post is terribly, off-puttingly text-dense, without a single paragraph-break. It's difficult to imagine many visitors will be willing to read that. And the previous post, just below that, is from last year, creating the impression of "not a very active site", to put it mildly. (It might be better to remove the dates, to "conceal" that?).

(vi) I never use the words "sign up" on any website: the word "sign" has connotations of "commitment" and can lose a few people.

(vii) Personally, I ask for email addresses only, not names as well, for the reasons explained here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7934937

Just quick thoughts - I don't understand your niche enough to offer anything "content-specific".

You have some great advice here so far.

I agree that I also don't put much faith into free websites. Get your own domain and hosting and have your own site. You can get the following domain for $10: learnfamilysurvival.com. Then hosting only runs you a few bucks a month.

Next clean up your copy a little bit to use some of the suggestions and make it more enticing. Get rid of some of the clutter from your site and you should see your opt-ins go up some.

Also, you haven't mentioned...where is your traffic coming from? Maybe the traffic is not interested in the opt-in. You might need better targeted traffic.

Wow ...that IS a good domain - lol. Snatch it up quick Chris....

EDIT: I have a friend that is making $XX,XXX per month in the survival niche ...so it's definitely a hot niche right now to be in.

Thanks for all the info guys, I will for sure take it all into consideration, you've opened my eyes to a few different routes and i'm thankful.

There are two many links to other places on that page, it could distract a potential subscriber. Maybe you could also make the fonts bigger, they are pretty small.. and maybe add a relevant attention catching picture!

yea it needs some work. you should study other sales pages. duplicate what works

You need your own domain and hosting first of all.

It isn't clear what the squeeze is about. What is 'family survival'? Why would I care if the government doesn't want me to know? There's probably many things the government doesn't tell me, and I'm okay.

It needs to be more benefit driven, what's the pain that opting in will solve?

You also need to get rid of the menu bar - it takes focus away from opting in.

In a lot of squeeze pages, I generally have a headline, an attention grabbing one, and the opt in, and that's it. If the headline doesn't cut it, you're probably not going to get an opt-in even if you have those bullet points - which don't really sell it to me either. If you do want to keep them, then make them stronger.

Test everything - find which works best for your visitors by setting up multiple tests, until you find a clear winner, then test the next bit.

Here's what I have done to a page that sells an audio file. I know that this isn't an opt in page, but it does show you just how simple these pages should be. Also notice the title on the page.

http://www.teachmeinfomarketing.com/pricingsecrets

I don't even know anything about the survival niche and I can think of plenty of stuff off the top of my head, survival gear, equipment, survival guides. I bet anyone who knows anything about it could come up with tons.

Thank you for everyones generous thoughts and feedback. I'm taking it all to heart and working on it as I speak. And yes there are many ways to monetize this niche, I'm finding new ways everyday. Like I said before, I'm just starting out, trying to get in the internet marketing/information marketing and be able to stay at home with my son, would like to homeschool, I know this will take maybe years to start making enough money to quit the day job, but I'm determined to teach my son myself cause I don't want him being taught false information and learn how to be a slave. Well enough about me, little rambling going on, but wanted to say thank you to EVERYONE who gave their 2 cents.

I think the design really needs to make me feel like I'm in the middle of the apocalypse with the 4 horsemen barging through my window.

The plain look of it really comes off in a way that we can't take it seriously. Make it look more like a bomb shelter we can take refuge in.

Like others have said you need to buy a domain and some hosting to be taken seriously.

I would ditch all external links apart from one back to an about me page, or similar page that let's me know who you are. With this niche trust would be a major issue, and also I'm pretty sure that this niche will be looking for a certain type of name / ethnic background, so if you don't fit that a pen name might be good.

I'd also think that a video talking directly about the fears and anxiety would massively help conversions.

Overall you need to really invest to cope against the top affiliates who are already all over this niche.